How much knowledge can an inter celebrity with a multi-decade career have had to offer? It’s a lot if they’re Jennifer Lopez. We’ll take it if the pinnacle gigantic offers her valuable lessons if they worked for her.
1. Silent the inner voice: “When I initially began my career, it was as though you had to be mute… if you did talk out, it was like, ‘Oh, I’m afraid, are you talking?'” “That upper eyelid I experienced was genuine, and it was a part of what happened we were in,” Lopez explained. “Ladies are at a point where they recognize that their opinions are valued, and they are standing publicly increasingly.” “We’re indicating that we tolerate this but not that, and also that we want to be considered equal. It’s a lot more liberating period.”
2. Appreciate your age: “There comes a period in your life when people write you off and you’re ready to quit up because you can only pound your head against the wall so many times.” ‘Perhaps it’s not meant to be, maybe I’m not intended to dream greater, maybe I’m destined to stay right here,’ you think. ‘Perhaps the larger, better life isn’t for me’ – and that’s nonsense. The failing is to give in to that way of thinking. The only thing that stands in your way is you. Ageism, racism, sexism, and social classism will always exist. It will exist, and you must understand that despite that, ‘I am still doing this.’ ‘I’m still going to finish it; I’m going to defy all odds.’ It was critical for us to send that word out.”
3. What makes you unique makes you powerful: “I always said that the fact that I was from the Bronx benefitted me when I moved out to Hollywood.” “It was the fact that I was so different from everyone else out there that set me apart, and it turned out to be my greatest strength,” Lopez explained. “That’s why, throughout my career, I’ve always been Jenny from the Block, and I’ve always been authentic.” It’s vital to me; it’s who I am; it’s the blood that rushes through your veins; it makes you hunger to recall how poor you once were, and then to yearn for more.” “I absolutely have had to bring out the Bronx on people when they are not being right and polite in the manner that they should be to a young girl,” she continued.
4. “It’s not them; it’s you.” It all begins with you. I remember going through relationships and thinking, ‘He’s this, he’s that he’s incorrect,’ and it was always the other person. Then I understood it was myself. I had to find it out on my own. I needed to figure out why I was making the decisions I was making. We hear it all the time, but you have to love yourself. I had to figure out what that meant. I thought I did, but that entails taking care of yourself, being your own keeper, making good choices for yourself, identifying harmful habits, determining where you’re hurting and healing, and dealing with your history. That was my most important piece of advice, and it’s what I’m telling my baby girl: “Love oneself first, be again with your own, and then you’ll have a fantastic connection with the people at work, at your relatives, and with whom you choose to live your life with.”
5. Contribute to the future. “It is vital to me that many of the ladies on the set and in the cast seem like genuine people. That is what we make certain is portrayed in our films. Movies can be more Hollywood and glossier at times, but they must still appear realistic. It can’t be some nonsense. West Side Story is the only film that has ever inspired me and has influenced my whole career. The reason was that it had Puerto Ricans. It made no difference that they were gang members! It didn’t matter that they were singing and dancing, that they were gorgeous, and that they were in love.